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TIL that Facebook Turned Down WhatsApp Founder Brian Acton for a Job before they bought his app for 19 Billions dollars.

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X7Dj TIL the “immortal” cancer cells of one woman, Henrietta Lacks, have been multiplying since her death in 1951 and have been used globally to research cancer, AIDS, the vaccine for polio, effects of radiation, gene mapping, and many other pursuits.
l7vm5 TIL that the moon is 1/400th the size of the sun but also 1/400th the distance from Earth which results in the moon and the sun being the same size in the sky, a coincidence not shared by any other known planet-moon combination.
BrYbD TIL Doreen Lioy sent serial killer Richard Ramirez 75 letters in 11 years while he was in jail. The minute she saw his mugshot on the TV, she noticed something “captivating” in his eyes. Ramirez proposed to her, and the courtship continued for the next 9 years before the two got married.
dEEZ TIL - In the late 1980s, Iraq began building the largest artillery piece in history, a gun that could have put satellites into Orbit, and conceivably hit any spot on the planet. However, the mysterious assassination of its Canadian designer, and the first Gulf War, ended the project
Ypbbd TIL that in August 2019, the US Army released a report stating that the country and its military would experience a total collapse within the next two decades due to collapses in the country's aging power grid and food supply, as well as the increased risk of infectious disease outbreaks globally.